Festival Headliner, Jon Meacham
The Hoover Public Library is set to host the 2026 Southern Voices Festival, a celebration of Southern literature, art, and music that has grown into one of the region’s most anticipated cultural events.
Taking place in February, the festival draws together authors, visual artists, and musicians, offering audiences an immersive experience that spans genres and generations.
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If you enjoy the slow reveal of a real-life mystery that unfolds with greater intrigue and a higher ‘WTF’ factor than the most oblique, multi-layered David Fincher script, then Author: The JT LeRoy Story is your wet dream of a documentary film. Author is the true story of wunderkind picaresque novelist JT LeRoy and the elaborate machinations behind the facade that disguised the Literary Hoax of the Century. Because, despite being one of the most popular and critically lauded writers of an entire decade (1996 to 2006), JT LeRoy never existed: he was merely an elaborate persona created by author Laura Albert to take credit for stories she wrote from the perspective of an emotionally and psychologically traumatized teenage boy. Yes, I just typed that.
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